CIO Moves: H-P; Dunkin’ Brands Group

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Hewlett Packard looked outside the organization, naming Ramon F. Baez from Kimberly-Clark its global chief information officer. At H-P Baez will be responsible for the technology giant’s information technology strategy and all of its internal assets, including architecture and data management. He will report to John Hinshaw, H-P’s executive vice president, Global Technology and Business Processes. As CIO at Kimberly-Clark Baez led the company’s enterprise-wide information systems initiatives for almost six years. Prior to that Baez held CIO positions at Fisher Scientific, Honeywell and Northrop Grumman. Baez holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of La Verne in La Verne, Calif.

Dunkin’ Brands Group announced a new chief information officer. Jack Clare comes from Yum! Restaurants International, a division of Yum! Brands, where during his four years as CIO he led IT strategy affecting 14,000 restaurants worldwide, including the company’s Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC brands. Before Yum!, Clare worked seven years with wine and spirits company Constellation Brands, most recently as a vice president for technology services. At Dunkin’ Brands, parent company to the donut maker and Baskin-Robbins ice cream, Clare will direct all IT resources with a focus on using technology to drive restaurant profitability. Clare earned a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Dayton, and an MBA from the University of California, Davis. Clare served as a systems and flight test engineer with the U.S. Air Force.

In this second article in a two-part series, Sonny Garg, senior vice president and chief information and innovation officer at Exelon Corp., the $27.4 billion competitive energy provider based in Chicago, describes the structure and inner workings of his emerging technologies team.